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The Translatability of Cultures: Figurations of the Space Between »

Authors: Sanford Budick (Editor), Wolfgang Aser (Editor), Wolfgang Iser
ISBN-13: 9780804725613, ISBN-10: 0804725616
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Date Published: January 1996
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Sanford Budick

Book Synopsis

These essays—which consider a wide variety of cultures from ancient Egypt to contemporary Japan— describe the conditions under which cultures that do not dominate each other may yet achieve a limited translatability of cultures.

	Contributors
	Crises of Alterity: Cultural Untranslatability and the Experience of Secondary Otherness	1
	Translating Gods: Religion as a Factor of Cultural (Un)Translatability	25
	Visual Syncretism: A Case Study	37
	Translatio Studii and Renaissance: From Vertical to Horizontal Translation	55
	Augustine, Chaucer, and the Translation of Biblical Poetics	68
	The Curse and Blessing of Babel; or, Looking Back on Universalisms	85
	Emerson's Constitutional Amending: Reading "Fate"	101
	The Holocaust and the Construction of Modern American Literary Criticism: The Case of Lionel Trilling	127
	Discovering America: A Cross-Cultural Perspective	147
	"It Is Time": The Buber-Rosenzweig Bible Translation in Context	169
	The Black Hole of Culture: Japan, Radical Otherness, and the Disappearance of Difference (or, "In Japan everything normal")	186
	Border Crossings, Translating Theory: Ruth	207
	Cross-Culture, Chiasmus, and the Manifold of Mind	224
	The Emergence of a Cross-Cultural Discourse: Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus	245
	Memory and Cultural Translation	265
	Remarks on the Foreign (Strange) as a Figure of Cultural Ambivalence	282
	Coda to the Discussion	294
	Notes	305
	Index	345